Named Entity Results, Magnesia (Greece)

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naval force of the Greeks and to make
trial, with all his fleet, of a sea-battle against them. And
Megabates, in accordance with the king's orders, set out from Pydne in Macedonia with all the fleet and put in at a promontory of
Magnesia which bears the name of Sepias. At this
place a great wind arose and he lost more than three hundred warships and great numbers of
cavalry transports and other vessels. And when the wind ceased, he weighed anchor and put in at
Aphetae in Magnesia. From here he dispatched two hundred triremes, ordering the commanders to
take a roundabout course and, by keeping Euboea on the
right, to encircle the enemy. The Greeks were stationed at Artemisium in
Euboea and had in all two hundred and eighty
triremes; of these ships one hundred and forty were Athenian and the remainder were furnished
by the rest of the Greeks. Their admiral was Eurybiades the Spartan, and Themistocles the
Athenian supervised

anguage, and using it in his defence he was acquitted of the charges. And the king was overjoyed that Themistocles had been saved and honoured
him with great gifts; so, for example, he gave him in marriage a Persian woman, who was of
outstanding birth and beauty and, besides, praised for her virtue, and [she brought as
her dower] not only a multitude of household slaves for their service but also of
drinking-cups of every kind and such other furnishings as comport with a life of pleasure and
luxury.This marriage of Themistocles to a noble Persian
lady is attested only by Diodorus and is almost certainly fictitious.
Furthermore, the king made him a present also of three cities
which were well suited for his support and enjoyment, Magnesia upon the Maeander River, which had more grain than any city of Asia, for bread, Myus
for meat, since the sea there abounded in fish, and Lampsacus, whose territory contained extensive vineyards, for wine.

ng now relieved of the fear which he had felt when among Greeks, the man who
had unexpectedly, on the one hand, been driven into exile by those who had profited most by the
benefits he had bestowed and, on the other, had received benefits from those who had suffered
the most grievously at his hands, spent his life in the cities we have mentioned, being well
supplied with all the good things that conduce to pleasure, and at his death he was given a
notable funeral in Magnesia and a monument that stands
even to this day. Some historians say that Xerxes, desiring to
lead a second expedition against Greece, invited
Themistocles to take command of the war, and that he agreed to do so and received from the king
guaranties under oath that he would not march against the Greeks without Themistocles.
And when a bull had been sacrificed and the oaths taken,
Themistocles, filling a cup with its blood, drank it down and immediately died. They